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0 pointsGigachad2y ago0 comments

Only if you have two monitors at different DPI scales which is impossible on x11 iirc.

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You can do it with client side scaling in X (which is also the preferred solution on systems like Windows, since an application can scale itself better than a generic compositor anyway).

slondr2y ago

Hmm, how does that work if you move clients around between displays?

destructionator2y ago

The client is given an XConfigureEvent when it is moved and can compare it against the monitor's bounding boxes (which it caches in between xrandr change notifications) and rescale itself.

Doesn't work with legacy applications... but neither does Wayland so you aren't really behind.

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destructionator2y ago

You can do it with client side scaling in X (which is also the preferred solution on systems like Windows, since an application can scale itself better than a generic compositor anyway).

slondr2y ago

Hmm, how does that work if you move clients around between displays?

destructionator2y ago

The client is given an XConfigureEvent when it is moved and can compare it against the monitor's bounding boxes (which it caches in between xrandr change notifications) and rescale itself.

Doesn't work with legacy applications... but neither does Wayland so you aren't really behind.

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